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What Gives?? Thanksgiving is not here yet and I see so many homes (not businesses) with Xmas lights and decorations on their homes and shrubry.
 

Ugh. I haven't seen it yet, but I don't like to see Christmas decorations until after Thanksgiving.
 

I saw xmas stuff while in the US in Sept in the stores. Nothing here though.

It still cracks me up when I think about listening to a DJ on the radio here about 10 years ago. He said people in the UK were starting to get tacky like the Americans and put up lots of xmas decorations and lights on their houses! LOL.
 
Maybe people want to get them up before cold, snowy weather sets in.

Christmas stuff is out in the stores right after Labor Day. My neighbor leaves his outdoor light decos up all year (only turns them on in December, though). Another neighbor has what looks like Christmas light up, but on closer inspection, I think they are Halloween lights - the evergreen roping behind them confused me. Second Saturday in Dec, I hang a wreath on the front door. That's all the decorating I do anymore.
 
debodun said:
Maybe people want to get them up before cold, snowy weather sets in.

Christmas stuff is out in the stores right after Labor Day. My neighbor leaves his outdoor light decos up all year (only turns them on in December, though). Another neighbor has what looks like Christmas light up, but on closer inspection, I think they are Halloween lights - the evergreen roping behind them confused me. Second Saturday in Dec, I hang a wreath on the front door. That's all the decorating I do anymore.
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We would love some rain in this part of California but we sure aren't expecting snow.
 
Ameriscot said:
I saw xmas stuff while in the US in Sept in the stores. Nothing here though.

It still cracks me up when I think about listening to a DJ on the radio here about 10 years ago. He said people in the UK were starting to get tacky like the Americans and put up lots of xmas decorations and lights on their houses! LOL.
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Tacky like the Americans?
 
LOL. My sister got very angry when I told her that. I think some of the outdoor lights and decorations are nice, but some are definitely tacky.
 
Oh. I'd like to think not all of us are tacky. We will have lights around our deck in December, a Menorah in the bay window (for our Jewish neighbors), and a sweet Nativity scene in the front yard.

Right now there are a couple pumpkins on the deck table and in the bay window there are two scarecrows on a small hay bale. There is also a backside of a witch that looks like she splatted against our computer room window. A sign attached to her says, "Don't drink and fly."
 
Pookie said:
Ah well, we're different.

What I love are the lights around our deck and the bay window. It's so inviting!
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Lights are fine. I don't think lights are tacky. It's all that other stuff.

I did say it was the DJ who said 'tacky like Americans'. He was referring to how decorations are overdone there. And I think this was around 2002ish. It's caught on in the UK. I even saw tacky xmas decorations in Thailand and it's a Buddhist country! They decorated for the all the tourists who are there at xmas. All non-religious decorations though.
 
Pookie said:
Ah well, we're different.

What I love are the lights around our deck and the bay window. It's so inviting!
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I love to look at lights around houses that are well done and tell a bit of a story..perhaps you might be able to post a photo of yours at Christmas pookie, they do sound like they are very pretty.:D

I don't put light outside or even inside my house any more, now that there's only the 2 of us, usually only the decorated Christmas tree and the mantle and firpalce decorated with candles and bits and bobs. I spend most Christmases abroad anyway..but last year I was at home, and this year we're both working right up until Christmas late on Christmas eve so we won't be going away again...but in the town nearest to my second home in Spain they celebrate with the most ebautiful hand made nativity scene model town, telling the history of the town and the area...it's absolutely stunning to look at, and it's laid out in the square outside the town Hall..for everyone to come and visit for free. It's not even covered up at night, because no-one would ever dream of vandalising it. ..and it stays there for a couple of weeks...

I'm leaving for a trip to Southern Spain tomorrow..I'll post some of the photos I've taken previously of the nativity scene when I return
 
Some xmas decorations in Thailand (a country which is 97% Buddhist). None of the decorations or songs they played in the malls were religious at all. Mostly Jingle Bells type stuff. Found it very funny. Try to figuring out these xmas bunnies?

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Yikes!!

I have a neighbor whose horrendous yard junk goes up the day after Halloween. You don't want to know. PINK fake Christmas trees, a Santa dressed in purple with a Rudolph that looks like a cross between a moose and a Bassett hound.

Then there's the pink plastic flamingos under the lighted palm trees. Nice touch there.
 
Pookie said:
Yikes!!

I have a neighbor whose horrendous yard junk goes up the day after Halloween. You don't want to know. PINK fake Christmas trees, a Santa dressed in purple with a Rudolph that looks like a cross between a moose and a Bassett hound.

Then there's the pink plastic flamingos under the lighted palm trees. Nice touch there.
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Yea, pretty tacky, eh? Last December I got really fed up with the same, poor quality xmas songs being played everywhere we went. Even the office of the community where we rent our house had a tacky thing on the porch that played the same song all day. Volume was low, so not too bad.
 
Well a small town in Ontario, Canada celebrated Christmas this weekend. Decorations on the street, a Christmas parade that estimates say was attended by 7,000 people (half the town) and even artificial snow on the lawn and home of Evan Leversage who is dying from brain cancer! His mom got the idea to have a Christmas dinner for her little family who will likely not spend another Christmas together and when the town became aware, they went all out and did up the town just as they would later in November/December.

That's the most wonderful Christmas story I've heard in a long time and this is definitely one time to support getting the Christmas decorations out early don't you think? http://www.thespec.com/news-story/6...ly-christmas-parade-for-cancer-stricken-evan/
 
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